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...Alexander's Ragtime Band," 1911. It was a march, not a rag, and its savviest musicality comprised quotes from a bugle call and "Swanee River." But the tune, which revived the ragtime fervor that Scott Joplin had stoked a decade earlier, made Berlin a songwriting star. On its first release, four versions of the tune charted at #1, #2, #3 and #4. Bessie Smith, in 1927, and Louis Armstrong, in 1937, made the top 20 with their interpretations. In 1938 the song was #1 again, in a duet by Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell; another Crosby duet, this time with...
...dead, they said. Humor was unseemly. And late-night comics, those unacknowledged legislators of America, no longer had anything to say to us. Yet it took a late-night comic to voice, movingly and indelibly, how we felt. "We're told [the terrorists] were zealots fueled by religious fervor," said the subdued but resilient host. "If you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park and Late Night with Conan O'Brien--gradually came...
...rhetoric has particularly dulled in Pakistan, where a columnist for the Karachi News International wrote last week that "the unraveling of the self-styled Islamic State [Afghanistan], the only one of its kind in the Muslim world, took only seven weeks. The fabric woven with only one strand, religious fervor, could not withstand the pressure of modern technology." For its part, al-Jazeera had repeatedly promoted the Taliban's military prowess. While the network still relentlessly airs stories about the plight of Afghan refugees, it recently showed a program that denounced the Taliban's extremism and gender oppression...
...without any religious nature beyond the mention of the word “Christmas,” a legend little-commemorated outside of some European circles was suddenly made into a “jolly old elf” with the power to make some seethe with anti-exclusivist fervor. Since Santa Claus was not widely associated with Christmas in America until a bit over a century ago, it should give some people pause to hear that it is an integral part of Christianity. However, Pforzheimer House Committee President Teresa L. Bechtold ’02 believes that, regardless...
...harbor resentment towards the United States. It is also true that radical cultural change imposed by external powers is often highly destructive to the social fabric of a nation. Witness the extreme opposition and cultural backlash to Soviet Communist rule in Afghanistan, for instance, a backlash that fed the fervor of the mujahudeen, of which the Taliban were a part...